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Gaming App Of The Day: Witch Wars Is The Ultimate Mobile Match-Three Game

Combining the addictive nature of match-three puzzlers with role-playing, spell-casting and fierce online competition, Witch Wars is a game with powerful mojo, but there’s always a price to pay for dark magics.

May 29, 2012
Mobile

Gaming App Of The Day: Finally, A Decent Real-Time Strategy Game On The iPad

RTS games have been tried on the iPad before, but they’ve usually resulted in stilted affairs or were simple attempts at cloning a PC control system. Autumn Dynasty, on the other hand, gets things right.

May 16, 2012
Mobile

New Star Soccer Turns You Into A Mobile Superstar

New Star Soccer is a flash game that’s been available on PC for years now. It’s fun and it’s free. Well, it’s also now out on Android, iPhone and iPad, and while it’s no longer free, it’s still great fun.

May 15, 2012
Mobile

Tower Of Fortune Puts A Fresh Spin On Retro Role-Playing

Chance has been a huge factor in role-playing games since the earliest days of pen-and-paper games. Normally represented as the roll of a die, Tower of Fortune swaps dice for slots. Is it a winning combination?

May 10, 2012
Mobile

This Game Will Tell You A Tale, Make You Laugh And Teach You To Mix Drinks

I love a good story. In fact, I love a good story almost as much as I love a good drink. The two things come together in fine form in the iPhone and iPod Touch game Bar Oasis 1.5, a free sequel of sorts that bridges the gap between Bar Oasis and the pending Bar Oasis 2.

May 9, 2012
Mobile

I Hate You, Ski Safari. OK, One More Game.

Defiant Development’s Ski Safari is one of those annoying-as-hell games that doesn’t have much to it other than an infuriating knack for making your finger hit the icon reflexively every time you even so much as glance at your iPhone.

May 4, 2012
Mobile

Saving Alien Lifeforms One Tentacle War At A Time

There is something really fitting about a puzzle game on a mobile device. I’m not sure if its how pensive or relaxing the activity can often feel, or if it’s to do with the nature of distractions people typically opt for.

May 3, 2012
Mobile

Total War Battles Brings A PC’s War To The iPad

Sadly, you cannot play Creative Assembly’s Total War games on an iPad. What you can now do, though, is play an iPad game by the same developers, which has almost nothing in common with the series with which it shares a name, but is still worth a look.

May 2, 2012
Mobile

Spellsword Keeps Endless Battling Addictive And Fun

Sometimes you just want to wander around a room and slash things with a sword. While listening to great 8-bit tunes. And squishing adorable baddies like bees and slimes. And collecting spell cards that poison or freeze or incinerate your opponents in glorious violent fashion.

April 27, 2012
Mobile

You Had Me At ‘Shooting Astronauts With Cheeseburgers’

My favourite mobile games are those that pull me in so quickly that a week passes by before I notice I’m spending every idle moment with my iPad gripped in my hands playing the damn thing. Games like Draw Something and Scramble With Friends have been my mobile game drug for the past few weeks.

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